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Barristers Archive

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One Day Out of Life; AllensGate Partners Forget About The Bad Times, Oh Yeah!

4 March 2011

HOLIDAY!! CELEBRATE!! If you're in a partnership that is facing allegations of possibly the deepest conflict-of-interest involving a law firm in Australia's legal history it's time for the good t...

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Selling The Drama; AAR Boss Michael Rose Expects ‘Flat’ Market

21 October 2009

When you've got a Firm Spy Downlow Medal swinging around your neck, you need to quickly make comments in the media to allay employee fears of a partnership rip off. And so, it is no surprise that we read comments from Allens Arthur Robinson chief executive partner Michael Rose in ALB which very much sells the drama of the GFC, necessitating the excrutiatingly tight partnership antics already witnessed: It is our sense that activity across the market as a whole is down. We would expect that things will stay relatively flat or decline further over the next 12 months. So Mike, does this mean the pay freeze is here to stay? This expectation that things will "stay relatively flat" is difficult to stomach given that AAR is widely rumoured to have out-performed rivals since the GFC began....

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Big4 Accounting Firm Parental Leave Policies & the Freehills (in)Significant Cost

13 May 2010

A couple of weeks ago, the AFR published an interesting article profiling parental leave policies amongst the Big4 accounting firms. In that article, the following was written: From July 1, KPMG w...

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Rumour: Partner Tony Wassaf Knocks the Jones Daylights out of AAR?

25 August 2010

In early September 2009 our friends at ALB reported that Jones Day was intending to build its Sydney office into a "full service offering". To achieve this, the firm recruited the head of Freehills...

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The Anomalously Transparent Mud Review; Mallesons Lifts Pay Freeze

31 March 2010

We reported yesterday the rumour that AAR recently informed staff that frozen pay would be thawed as of July 1. If true, this move would bring it into line with its competitor Blake Dawson. We went...

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Mo’ Problems; Placing The Spotlight On The Mallesons Non-Partner Headcount Reduction

17 August 2010

A few weeks ago we published two controversial reports relating to reductions in non-partner fee-earner headcount at Allens Arthur Robinson and Clayton Utz. In the Clayton Utz post, we queried whet...

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The Minter Ellison Portrait of Ministerial Brown-Nosing

20 August 2009

Probably the clearest validation of the economic prophesies of Mallesons Prognosticator Partner Robert Milliner emerged earlier this week from national competitor Minter Ellison. But before we i...

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TEMPORARILY REDACTED Controversial BDO Email Leaked: “[Redacted]“

11 May 2011

There has been much interest in this post since we redacted the contents of an allegedly leaked BDO email. We decided against the publication of several comments following both the original post an...

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Firm Spy Downlow Award – Allens Arthur Robinson

23 September 2009

We thought it appropriate, in this huge week of Australian Rules Football, to pay homage to our national sport with the inaugural Firm Spy Downlow Award. Whereas the Brownlow is awarded to the fai...

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A Change Would Do You Good; PwC AuIT Staff Resign In Droves

28 July 2010

In response to our article a couple of weeks ago which profiled the alleged underpayment of PwC managers, came the following comments from anonymous PwC spies: First this: The “Mass Exodus”...

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